Steal your buddy's MSN display pic

I don't know how well this works but it worked well for me... Extra note that I'm using msgplus addon on my windows live so I am not sure about the native Windows live messenger. Anyway I thought it would be worth sharing here.


I was actually looking for the malware that apparently was running from the temporary folder of my computer. So I went to the temporary folder by typing

%temp%

There I found the folder MessengerCache and then to kill my curiosity, I browsed inside the folder and found some files with their name in base64 encoded format(probably) like:

5MUxRvUiwvrxjV2LPv16yrBUhKs=
fffaxlzPZXqjTQMBjaQqrIhOQtc=
RMsNq5KjYXJA2LKOCzpJX2FY4Wzo=
etc...

I then opened one of these files in notepad++ and found the starting of the file containing

GIF89a

which is something like header for the GIF images. Immediately I renamed the file into .gif and when I viewed it, I found it to be display pic of one of the friends in my buddy list. I hope you got me... This is something like stealing buddy's display pic. Have fun. :)